The gaming industry is by far growing and has yet to break new records. Here's an overview of what is the top 100 largest prize pools in a gaming tournament and more information on the worlds greatest gaming tournament for 2014.
Top 100 Largest Overall Prize Pools
World's Greatest Gaming Tournaments for 2014
Valve and the Dota 2 community have outdone themselves. The International 2014 (TI4)’s prize pool has hit its final stretch goal of $10 million, unlocking all 22 stretch goals with an additional surprise reward for an Unusual Techies Taunt. That’s around three a half times the prize pool of $2.8 million from the previous International’s and more than six times of the base prize pool of $1.6 million. TI4’s prize pool is the first eight-digit prize pool in both the history of The International and in eSports tournaments worldwide. It is also the first time the Compendium has broken its final stretch goal twice. | |
The MSI Beat It Gaming Tournament can be traced back to 2010, where the first tournament was hosted by MSI. The vision is to create a platform for all gamers to show their gaming skills and enjoy the competition against the best players in the world. The MSI Beat IT tournaments have made some of the top players of our time famous and provided players who want to enjoy gaming an unforgettable experience with the MSI Beat It Gaming Tournament Series. | |
DreamHack is the World's Largest Computer Festival. DreamHack's roots and core is the LAN party, with the major events DreamHack Summer and Winter, where participants bring their own computers and connect to the Internet in a large local area network which basically BECOMES the Internet by sheer scale. DreamHack is also Sweden's first consumer-oriented trade show / event / festival for computer games, game consoles and computers. The events are a platform for tournaments in eSports, knowledge and creative competitions, concerts by famous music artists, lectures by game developers and much more. | |
The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is ESL's flagship competition sponsored by Intel. IEM is a huge tournament series spanning across many months and individual competitions that will ultimately be culminated in the Global Championships. Each year the games which are played changes. | |
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